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dusty
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 Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 3:46 pm Post subject: "The National Endowment for the Art of Persuasion?" |
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In the spirit of leaving no stone unturned, the Obama administration is now usurping the powers of the NEA to influence artists in all disciplines to use their artistic freedoms to push his health care reform bills and other agendas.
This is a blatant and dangerous misuse of Executive powers.
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Me#1You#10
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| Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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Unbelievable. Abso-friggin-lutely unbelievable.
| dusty wrote: | In the spirit of leaving no stone unturned, the Obama administration is now usurping the powers of the NEA to influence artists in all disciplines to use their artistic freedoms to push his health care reform bills and other agendas.
This is a blatant and dangerous misuse of Executive powers. |
Dusty, thanks for posting this up. It's one of those things that you're quite sure was going on behind the scenes, but to see "artistic" propagandizing so openly promoted by the leftist leadership of a chartered government institution is truly frightening...(italics his, emphasis mine)
| Patrick Courrielche wrote: | And if you think that my fear regarding the arts becoming a tool of the state is still unfounded, I leave you with a few statements made by the NEA to the art community participants on the conference call. “This is just the beginning. This is the first telephone call of a brand new conversation. We are just now learning how to really bring this community together to speak with the government. What that looks like legally?…bare with us as we learn the language so that we can speak to each other safely… “
Is the hair on your arms standing up yet? |
Several takes...
First, the personal courage demonstrated by Patrick Courrielche in going public on this blatant leftist corruption of the NEA's founding concept is stunning. I would be quite surprised if he doesn't experience some significant and negative personal ramifications resulting from this expose.
Second, rather than a "dangerous misuse of Executive powers" and the argument that engenders, I'm more persuaded this is a profound demonstration of leftist "overreach" abetted by the election of a transparent leftist in an atmosphere of "anything goes now" leftism.
One thing is for sure...Americans should be calling for Yosi Sergant's head on a rack (the Director of Communications for the National Endowment for the Arts), and the sooner the better.
P.S. In deference to Mr. Courrielche's work, I've amended the topic to reflect his title. |
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Me#1You#10
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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From another topic...
| TEWSPilot wrote: | | The propagandists in the media will dig in their heels as much as possible, but there is a juggernaut coming at them, and they may just get run over. Let the "information" dam burst! |
Just my take, but the euphoria over mounting a single anti-American, lying communist's head on the political wall and the retreat of the White House/DoE on the "Dear Leader" issue may slow that needed juggernaut considerably.
The blatant (and quasi-legal) politicization of the National Endowment for the Arts...which received ZERO attention amidst the furor over "Van Jones" and "Dear Leader" must not be forgotten.
Perhaps there's just too much on the plate right now...especially with the intensity of focus on Obama's upcoming healthcare speech...but I'm concerned that the NEA outrage is going to get lost in the shuffle.
Someone's leftist head needs to roll over that one as well, and it must be exposed and pursued with the same vigor applied to the "Van Jones" and "Dear Leader" leftist outrages. |
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Me#1You#10 wrote: | From another topic...
| TEWSPilot wrote: | | The propagandists in the media will dig in their heels as much as possible, but there is a juggernaut coming at them, and they may just get run over. Let the "information" dam burst! |
Just my take, but the euphoria over mounting a single anti-American, lying communist's head on the political wall and the retreat of the White House/DoE on the "Dear Leader" issue may slow that needed juggernaut considerably.
The blatant (and quasi-legal) politicization of the National Endowment for the Arts...which received ZERO attention amidst the furor over "Van Jones" and "Dear Leader" must not be forgotten.
Perhaps there's just too much on the plate right now...especially with the intensity of focus on Obama's upcoming healthcare speech...but I'm concerned that the NEA outrage is going to get lost in the shuffle.
Someone's leftist head needs to roll over that one as well, and it must be exposed and pursued with the same vigor applied to the "Van Jones" and "Dear Leader" leftist outrages. |
I doubt that Glenn Beck will let it slip by. We'll just have to see what his ability to keep the story in play will amount to.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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Emails, faxes, letters, and phone calls to your members of Congress might help, too. If you can call in on one of the talk shows and bring this issue up, that would also help. We are all Paul Reveres, so mount up and ride.
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Apparently the leftists are scurrying for their respective holes as this NEA outrage is visited anew. Drudge has a link up now to a followup article by Patrick Courrielche at Breitbart which reveals yet another (but different) instance of leftist plans to propagandize on the public "art" dole. Rush Limbaugh is just getting warmed up on it as I type...
| Quote: | WHO SET UP GOVERNMENT ‘PROPAGANDA’ CONFERENCE CALL?
Newly Revealed White House, NEA Audio Contradict
by Patrick Courrielche
Another conference call has materialized, revealing a concerted effort by government to use the arts to address political issues.
Lee Rosenbaum, a blogger for Artsjournal.com, posted her experience with a meeting that occurred on August 27th and confessed that she also felt “uneasy” about the government’s arts effort. The meeting invitation (viewable here) went out to all “member local, state, and regional arts agencies, community-based arts organizations, and national partners of Americans for Arts.” Americans for Arts is a non-profit arts organization that has received substantial grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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As mentioned in the invitation, the NEA was to be on this phone call. However at the last minute, as Rosenbaum blogged, “Modi informed us that ‘unfortunately our colleagues from NEA and NEH [the National Endowment for the Humanities]’ were tied up in meetings and couldn’t participate, as had been planned.”
Could it have anything to do with the article I posted two days earlier? We can only guess but Rosenbaum also hopes that they might have been “having second thoughts about commandeering their constituents for this political adventure.”
What appears to be emerging is a concerted and deliberate effort by the White House and the NEA to encourage the art community to create issue specific art. This new conference call shows the same modus operandi, including a “third party” individual moderating the call to apparently distance the NEA and the White House from initiating the meeting.
Breitbart - cont'd
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I'm fairly confident (now...thank goodness) that the "New Media" is on the scent and we can expect much more to come. |
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| Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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With all of the attention that Beck is now getting over the Van Jones debacle, there isn't much that is going to slip through, for awhile at least.
Van Jones, hah! His name isn't Van at all, it's an ID that he picked for himself while in school, because he thought it was cool to have a one syllable moniker! So, even his name is phony!
The art thing will now steal more attention away from where the administration wants it, and further complicate Obama's ability to mismanage our country.
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| I'm picturing "Duh One" jogging along Presidentially all decked out in spiffy togs with all his Socialist programs plastered all over him like decals on a NASCAR racer and having to stop every once in a while to clean the latest political "dog poop" off his $600 taxpayer bought sneakers...priceless. |
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Me#1You#10
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| Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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They're dropping like leftist flies...but we'll be swatting until 2012...
| Quote: | NEA in politics flap
Politico
Categories: White House
September 10, 2009
The communications director for the National Endowment for the Arts is no longer in his job amid a flap over suggestions he suggested artists work to further President Obama's legislative agenda.
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The agency, for now, is keeping it utterly cryptic: Sargent is "currently an employee," said spokeswoman Sally Gifford, who said she couldn't comment on whether he is communications director.The agency, for now, is keeping it utterly cryptic: Sargent is "currently an employee," said spokeswoman Sally Gifford, who said she couldn't comment on whether he is communications director.
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Congrats and compliments to Patrick Courrielche and Breitbart's "Big Hollywood". |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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My celebration was premature...
| Quote: | | UPDATE: The National Endowment for the Arts Public Affairs Specialist Sally Gifford contacted The Washington Times and clarified that Mr. Sergant is still an employee at the NEA but is no longer Director of Communications. |
Mr. Sargant's status needs to be changed from employee at the NEA to person of interest in a federal criminal probe. |
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zinfella
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| Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 4:47 am Post subject: |
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The Obama admin is now getting a more serious look from the public, and that can't be good for him. But, it's great for our country!
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| Hey, Loretta, you know all those cute little bugs we got free from the government for Junior's ant farm? They're TERMITES!!!!!!! |
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